If you want flat memory model, and unlimited disk space, it sounds like os/2 is what you want. It's a real shame IBM stopped supporting/ selling it. Wonder if we could get IBM to opensource it. Likely not, but it's a nice idea. As for windows, if you want to have flat memory models, and as much disk space as you can use in a programming language, check out powerbasic at http://www.powerbasic.com. It's something I've used for years, and believe it or not, they still sell and support their dos version of powerbasic. Of course, the dos one doesn't have all the nice memory/disk features the windows version of the compiler has, but there's nothing better for getting down and dirty with the innards of the os, and writing a console windows app that has no memory restrictions. It's an excellent compiler, and no serious basic programmer should be without it. Unfortunately, for some reason, when I tried to get it added to a list of basic compilers I found somewhere, the maintainer of the list told me they wouldn't add it, because they didn't think it was it's own compiler. I'm still puzzling over that one, but to each his own I guess. Anyway, the console compiler produces text-mode programs, that will use all available memory, run on any version of windows from win95 through win8, and even their dos version of the compiler has some nice features, like tsr support. It's a nice compiler, and for 49 bucks for the classic version (I think that special is still going on) you really can't go wrong there.
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